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Collection of music-related autographs, 1796-1874.

Title: Collection of music-related autographs, 1796-1874.

Eighteen autograph letters, chiefly by musical composers and performers, with dates between 1796 and 1874. Apparently removed from an autograph album (some letters are still mounted in the original album leaves with ms biographical annotations concerning their author). Includes a letter from Charles Burney to Samuel Rose, dated June 30, 1796, discussing the specifications for a pitchpipe commissioned by a Mr. Christopher Young, and an enquiry concerning double basses, on which Burney had apparently consulted the double bass player and publisher George Smart. Also of interest are a letter from William Sterndale Bennett to the publisher Friedrich Kistner, which refers to Mendelssohn, and a letter in French from M. W. Balfe to Henri Saint-Georges, and, outside the musical sphere, a letter by William Henry Fox Talbot to the artist Henry Collen, and a letter by Sir Rowland Hill.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702179190 View

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Autograph letter signed, dated : Leipzig, 13 January 1839, to an unidentified recipient, 1839 Jan. 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Leipzig, 13 January 1839, to an unidentified recipient, 1839 Jan. 13.

Sending [not present], as promised, his Cello Sonata, op. 45, saying that it will be published by Kistner in the middle of February, and asking the recipient to forward the package immediately to [Ignaz] Moscheles.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (obl. 8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270582279 View

Albi Rosenthal collection of letters between composers and music publishers, 1704-1966.

Title: Albi Rosenthal collection of letters between composers and music publishers, 1704-1966.

Collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th-century autograph manuscript letters between composers and music publishers, collected by music antiquarian Albi Rosenthal from the early 1970s through about 2002.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00368/catalog View

Jensen, Adolf, 1837-1879. Autograph letter signed, dated : Königsberg, 13 October 1865, to Herr [Carl Friedrich Ludwig] Gurckhaus [at Fr. Kistner in Leipzig], 1865 Oct. 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Königsberg, 13 October 1865, to Herr [Carl Friedrich Ludwig] Gurckhaus [at Fr. Kistner in Leipzig], 1865 Oct. 13.

Saying that in about two weeks Gurckhaus will receive the manuscript of Jensen's Lieder und Tänze for piano, op. 33, and adding that he is not happy that his works are so separated in [Kistner's] extensive publications, and that he would prefer that the publisher issued more volumes at one time.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p., docketed) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270578630 View

Raff, Joachim, 1822-1882. Autograph letters signed (33), autograph postal card signed, and autograph document signed, dated : Wiesbaden, Weimar, Vienna, Leipzig, [and n.p.], 1859-1863 and 1877, [and n.d.], to Julius Schuberth in Leipzig (two are to a Herr Vogel, who was apparently connected with Schuberth), 1859-1863 and 1877, [and n.d.], including 1859 Sept. 3 and 1863 Feb. 23.

Title: Autograph letters signed (33), autograph postal card signed, and autograph document signed, dated : Wiesbaden, Weimar, Vienna, Leipzig, [and n.p.], 1859-1863 and 1877, [and n.d.], to Julius Schuberth in Leipzig (two are to a Herr Vogel, who was apparently connected with Schuberth), 1859-1863 and 1877, [and n.d.], including 1859 Sept. 3 and 1863 Feb. 23.

Discussing the publication and/or performance of a number of his works, including the Sonatas in A major and E minor, the Sonata op. 77 [sic], "Stücke für kleine Hände," Samson, König Alfred, the D-minor Quartet (discussed at length), his opp. 49, 50, 55 ("Frühlingsboten"), and 58, "Klavier-Soli," "Eglogue fantastique," 3 Sonatillen, Wachet auf!, "Sangesfrühling" [all 30 songs are listed], "Nabocoff Polka Mazurka," Symphony [no. 1] "An das Vaterland," and other works, mentioning Liszt, Draeseke, Schumann, Bülow, Kistner, Gurckhaus, Zellner, Rellstab, [Ludwig] Strauss, Pruckner, Hellmesberger, [Leopold] Damrosch, Singer, Beethoven, Hanslick, Müller String Quartet, Pohl, Laub, Strauss String Quartet, Thalberg, Keller, Wagner, Mozart, Spohr, Meyerbeer, Weber, Lortzing, Marschner, Flotow, [Anton] Rubinstein, Brahms, Lassen, Bronsart von Schellendorf, Brendel, Heinrichshofen, Klindworth, Laurencin d'Armond, Schott, Schreiber, Tausig, [Robert] Franz, Hiller, Hug, Voss, Bote & Bock, Glasbrenner's Berlin, Gumprecht, Joachim, Bachmann, Chevillard, Armingaud, Roeder, [Adolf Bernhard] Marx, Kühn, Jaell, [Ignaz] Moscheles, Heinze, Satter, Goldbeck, Wallace, Barth, Hasselt, Senff, Mendelssohn, Rietz, Breitkopf & Härtel, Handel, Stör, Walbrül, Cossmann, Mason Brothers, Hallberger, Rummel, Reinecke, [Gustav] Schumann, Jadassohn, Dustmann, Schnorr von Carolsfeld, [Julius?] Friedländer, Cotta, Rieter-Biedermann, Peters, Spina, Schubert, Lange, Riedel, Kücken, Grädener, Herbeck, Gade, Dessoff, Bruch, Kahnt, and other persons, etc.

ArchivalResource: 35 items (98 p., with 2 integral address leaves) ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270675775 View

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Melodram.

Title: Melodram. [1844?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. condensed score ([2] p.) ; 29 cm. + 1 autograph letter signed ([1] leaf ; 28 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706836508 View